"I've found quite valuable relationships with my first-year classmates. We've really bonded, professionally and socially, as a group, and I can't help but think that this will be an invaluable asset going forward. I think that the intellectual, moral, and social support you gain from your classmates is precious. The dynamic students themselves are one of the most incredible assets of the program."
Colleen Beecken Rye, 4th Year, Health Care Mgmt. & Economics
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Wharton's alumni network is the largest and strongest of any leading business school. More than 82,000 alumni live and work in more than 139 countries, including more than 1,400 doctoral alumni worldwide. Doctoral graduates maintain strong relationships with faculty and peers, continuing to collaborate, exchange ideas at conferences and professional meetings. In addition to Wharton's active alumni base, you gain access to Penn's larger alumni network of 250,000 graduates.
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- — Wilfred Amaldoss, Marketing, PhD 1998
Associate Professor of Marketing
The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
"I had no idea that I was going to bond with the people in my department for the rest of my life. We took all our classes to together, and it felt like a cohort." Read interview.
- — Frances X. Frei, Operations and Information Management, PhD 1996
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit
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- — Lubos Pastor, Finance, PhD 1999
Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
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- — Thomas A. Weber, Operations and Information Management, PhD 2003
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University